^Bi)c 3l^ibgerunner
Voice of the Students
Vol. IX No. XV
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
February 8, 1974
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Mrs. Carolyn Frady
The Substitute Chancellor
It’s been said that behind every
successful man there’s an
equally successful woman, in
her own right, and Dr. William
E. Highsmith is no different.
In Dr.. Highsmith’s case the
woman is his faithful secretary
for the past 11 years, Mrs. Carolyn
Frady.
Mrs. Frady brings to her job
something that is missing from
most other jobs on campus —
enthusiasm. And its evident
everytime she speaks.
Being the secretary to a col
lege chancellor can in no way be
played down in importance.
At a recent meeting of the
board of trustees, Highsmith
referred to Mrs. Frady as being
the -inost important person on
campus.
Still to others, like Pete Gilpin,
director of the public information
office, she’s referred to as the
“substitute chancellor,” whenever
the Chancellor is out of town.
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Littlest Cheerleader
Five-year-old Scarlett Bell is the newest addition to the
UNC-A cheerleading squad this year. Scarlett is the daughter
of Tom and Becky Bell of Asheville and has become the delight
of Bulldog fans this year with her on-court antics and her off-
court charm. (Staff Photo by Jane Nicholson)
Ridgerunner
Policy Statement
EDITOR’S NOTE* During the
course of the academic year a
number of questions have arisen
concerning the status of the
Ridgerunner. It is the intent of
the Ridgerunner staff to answer
these questions by publishing
the following document.
I. PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy state
ment is to provide continuity for
the Ridgerunner as an institution
of UNC-A, to safeguard the edi
torial freedom of the Ridgerunner
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In a day where many women
are caught up in the women’s
liberation movement. Mrs. Frady
is an exception. “I’m no libber,”
she says. “I’m perfectly content
in my role as a woman,” she said.
“I don’t look at my job if
it were work that I have to do,
but rather as a second home,”
she said.
“I have got a pleasant job and
a great boss,” she added.
MRS. CAROLYN FRADY WITH HER BOSS
. . . Dr. William E. Highsmith
Energy Crisis Poses
Threat to Future
of College Students
WASHINGTON (CPS) — Most of
the effects of the energy crisis
on college students are, so far,
trivial, limited mainly to colder,
darker campuses, though educa
tion officials across the country
are just beginning to verbalize
some of the potentially disastrous
effects, including revised cal
endars, extended vacations and
higher costs of living and educa
tion.
In testimony before the Sen
ate Education subcommittee
last week, an Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW) official said
the energy crisis will hurt low-
income students attending com
munity colleges, vocational and
technical schools much more
severely than others.
Among problems low-income
students in particular will have to
face are rising fuel bills resulting
in higher tuition and higher gas
oline costs for commuters.
Part-time and evening students
will suffer if schools close or
curtail schedules in order to
conserve fuel or reduce operating
costs.)
According to the President’s
national commission on financing
postsecondary education every
$100 increase in tuition forces
at least 2'/6per cent or 175,000
public college students out of
school.
The National Student Lobby
(NSL) said the increase in cost
for the average commuter who
travels ten miles to school and
pays a 20 cent increase in the price
of gasoline equals a $100
increase in tuition.
NSL president Arthur Rodbell,
in a letter to energy chief William
Simon, listed nine effects of the
energy crisis on students: winter
term closings, summer employ
ment losses due to forced makeup
sessions, breakup of school year
employment with no compensa
tion, increased costs of commuting
to and from campuses, threats of
parking taxes levied by the En
vironmental Protection Agency,
increased costs of interstate
travel with the phasing out of
youth standby fare discounts on
airlines, rising costs of materials
to produce student educational
tools. Committee for Economic
Development and Carneige Com
mission recommendations to
double tuitions, and too little
financial aid to compensate for
increased costs of education.
All over the country colleges
and universities are continuing
crash programs of lowering ther
mostats, reducing indoor and out
door campus lighting, forming
student and faculty car pools and
closing little-used buildings in
attempts to cut energy use by 10
to 25 percent.
The Federal Energy Office’s
(FEO) mandatory fuel allocation
programs require colleges and
universities to reduce indoor heat
ten degrees or otherwise save
the equivalent amount of fuel.
There are some bright spots in
the picture. The need for energy
has resulted in better employment
prospects for engineering grad
uates. Many campuses may save
money by fuel cutbacks. A year
long program to economize
through utility savings saved
Purdue University $212,689 or
five percent of its f^uel costs.
Another benefit of the crisis is
the hundreds of thousands of
dollars schools are getting in
research grant money to study
development of energy alterna
tives.
Campus Situation
Looks Brighter
Thanks to a mild winter and a
partial shutdown at Christmas
the fuel situation on campus looks
much brighter for the remainder
of the winter than it did last fall,
according to Sam Millar, UNC-A
plant engineer.
“Overall we’re in pretty good
shape, Millar said, but if it turns
cold for a sustained period of
time it could empty our tanks in
a hurry.”
Millar reported that the storage
tanks on campus are approxi
mately half full and that the mild
winter and the easing back on
the thermometer had accounted
for a 40 per cent savings in fuel
oil during January as compared
to last year.
In an effort to conserve fuel,
thermometers around campus
have been rolled back to between
66 and 68 degrees as compared
to the 72 degrees setting of a year
ago.
The heat is turned off at night
in most buildings and turned on
early in the morning to help con
serve fuel and on warm days is
turned off around 10 or 11 a.m.
Millar also noted that savings
have also been made on electricity
and natural gas, as well as fuel
oil.